“Here, you made me angry, Olga.” Veronica Gentili is as repressed as the viewers of Upstream First Eveningthe conversation was broadcast on Rete 4 on Wednesday. In connection with Moscow there is, in fact there was Olga Kurlaeva, who had just greeted the company by slamming the door. Excuse me, I’m blocking the video call from his living room. In the studio, Gianluigi Nuzzi he’d just scolded her for looking unprofessional on the love seat.
For weeks, the Italian-Russian confrontation had been bloody and cruel on TV. But it is the first time that a “Putinian” guest has left the live broadcast before he has even started to speak. A world record. “I saw this journalist showing up in a t-shirt with a sports t-shirt sponsor and sponsored with ads,” Nuzzi points out.
The Fourth Degree Conductor refers to the t-shirt with the logo of Russia 1 (the TV station of Vladimir SolovievHalf-bust oligarch who in his last speech defined Westerners as “bastards” and blamed them for World War III, “but we’re going to go to heaven anyway”) left and right those of Zasport, a sports brand that dressed Russian athletes at the recent Beijing Winter Olympics. “I’m used to speaking to Western reporters who wear a jacket and tie or a shirt. I’ve never seen a sponsored reporter. This lady didn’t have it for me no credibilityhe can go home, he can take off the shirt and put it on a decent shirt. Thanks very much”.
Kurlaeva’s reply: «I wanted to thank you for the invitation. But I don’t want to participate because I’ve seen it’s ridiculous. Talk about the shirt I have. Someone also asked why you are calling the Russian journalists. If you don’t need Russian journalists, I don’t want to talk to you anymore, you talk, thank you and goodbye ». Farewell in style. At least that.